{"id":10719,"date":"2009-09-15T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10719"},"modified":"2009-09-15T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T12:59:59","slug":"15-thousand-vs-2-million-media-throws-wide-on-anti-obama-protest-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10719","title":{"rendered":"15 thousand vs. 2 million: Media throws wide on anti-Obama protest numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama’s spending in “tea party” demonstration
\nDavid Gardner, Daily Mail<\/em>, 14 September 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As many as one million people flooded into Washington for a massive rally organised by conservatives claiming that President Obama is driving America towards socialism.<\/p>\n

The size of the crowd – by far the biggest protest since the president took office in January – shocked the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That photo of the 9\/12 march on Washington? It\u2019s fake.
\nBy Matthew Shaer, The Christian Science Monitor<\/em>, 14 September 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The fake photo, courtesy of Politifact.<\/p><\/div>On Sept. 12, a group called FreedomWorks \u2013 with a little help from Glenn Beck at Fox News \u2013 organized a \u201ctaxpayer\u201d rally in DC to protest the \u201cirresponsible government takeover of our nation\u2019s healthcare, devastating new energy taxes, and trillions of dollars in red ink.\u201d When the mainstream media didn\u2019t pick up on the story, several conservative bloggers began distributing a photo of protesters clogging the DC mall.<\/p>\n

Problem: the photo is from a totally different event. Politifact, a nonpartisan journalistic fact-checking organization, checked in on Monday with Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the DC Fire and Emergency Department. Piringer \u201cunofficially\u201d estimated that between 60,000 and 75,000 people had shown up. He added that the photo circulating conservative sites was almost certainly not from this year.<\/p>\n

[Read the report<\/a> | Politifact link<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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